Maclean’s highlighted culture and community as Delta’s top feature, followed by its weather and amenities.

Information provided by Maclean’s on Delta’s positioning notes that only 1.9 per cent of the population walks to work; 0.5 per cent of people bike to work and 6.6 per cent of the population takes transit.

Under the weather factors, Delta has an average of 155 days per year with rain or snow; 344 days where the temperature is above 0 C and 64 days with the temperature above 20 C.

The city has 72 doctors’ offices — 88 doctors per 100,000 people — and 2.1 per cent of the population is employed in arts and recreation.

Delta’s population of 108,065 (up 4.3 per cent over the last five years) has a median household income of $104,554, with a regional unemployment rate of 4.9 per cent.

The average value of real primary real estate in the municipality is $1,146,307 and Deltan’s pay an average of $2,921 in annual property tax, 1.9 per cent of the average income.

The estimated average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the city is $1,185 per month.

Maclean’s also estimated the city’s five-year average for Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index to be 54, 19 index points below the national average of 73.

The CSI is a national measure of police-reported crime. Unlike the traditional crime rate, which only counts the number of crimes in a jurisdiction, the CSI is a comprehensive measure that takes into account the seriousness of crime — a higher score indicates a greater number and/or greater severity of crimes, and a low CSI rate generally indicates that a community is relatively safe.

The magazine also released its list of Canada’s 100 richest communities, with Delta sitting at number 29, with an average household net worth of $1,263,460. Delta also ranked as the tenth richest community in B.C.

Topping the list — both for B.C. and Canada — was West Vancouver at $4.45 million. Among communities south of the Fraser, the Township of Langley ranked 21st at just over $1.4 million; Richmond ranked 29th at just over $1.27 million; White Rock ranked 40th at a little under $1.18 million and Surrey ranked 49th at just under $1.08 million.